Friendship Quotes

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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. [In other words learn to enjoy your own company and it's the start of a life long friendship]
Charles Hughes

Friendship is but a name. I love no one
Napoleon Bonaparte

Friendship and mutual co-operation must be the keywords for alternative ways of working once the Euro Ivory Tower has been demolished.
Steve Blake

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame,
'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same,
As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
Katherine Philips

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran

Louise this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Humphrey Bogart

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides

Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
George Herbert

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin

Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Crawford

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

I don't know what the fuss is about. There are 7,000 girls [on her friendship with Mick Jagger]
Carla Bruni

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Edgar Watson Howe

Every business is built on friendship.
J C Penney

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Sir Thomas Aquinas

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D Rockefeller

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
Jacques Chirac

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon

Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
Ouida

I heard what Ashley Cole said about kicking me if he has to, but he will have to catch me first. When we step out on to the pitch on Sunday, all friendships will be forgotten.
Robert Pires

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
Max Jacob

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
Ovid

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De Balzac

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Tocqueville

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Sir Thomas Aquinas

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wilcox

If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
Chin-Ning Chu



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